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On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:14, Grant wrote: |
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> > > Does anyone else have a comment on this? Does turning on berkdb |
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> > > increase the performance of the applications that can utilize it, with |
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> > > the downside of another package on the system? How about gdbm? |
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> > At one point berkdb and gdbm conflicted in cyrus-sasl and I think there |
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> > were issues in PHP as well... this is roughly 2-3 years ago. I started |
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> > turning berkdb off for most things and never noticed a difference. My |
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> > understanding is that they do the same thing. |
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> > I'd say using neither is an issue. Apache will start, process config |
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> > files, and then use berkdb or gdbm to create a hash of the vhosts for |
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> > fast lookups. I'd assume Apache has some less efficient fallback code to |
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> > hash configs or it would fail to build without one or the other. |
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> It sounds like I should have one or the other on. I guess I'll go for |
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> berkdb since it's a default and gdbm is not. |
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In the amd64-2006+ and x86-2005.1+ profiles both berkdb and gdbm are on by |
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default. This leaves the choice to the applications. |
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